Chapter 2507 Collapsing Civilization

Chapter 2507 Collapsing Civilization

Eventually, a month passed since the inception of Beast Incursion.

In the span of one month, the state of human civilization had been altered fundamentally and drastically. It was unrecognizable.

In the span of one month, all human nations and polities that didn't possess the ability to last for too long under the endless waves of beasts and monsters simply perished. One month into the Beast Incursion filtered out all the weak, vulnerable, and unprepared human establishments and polities.

This amounted to a fifth of human civilization. This represented hundreds of billions of human beings across the entirety of the Human Domain.

This fifth was closest to the Beast Domain where the pressure and peril were the highest. They were simply unable to deal with the endless frenzy of the beast tide that never ceased for even a second. That factor combined with massive supply chain disruptions meant that the already struggling Martial Artists were not able to get all their potion needs, which meant they were less productive. It also meant that siege weapons could not last too long and had to enter cooldown for longer periods of time.

And thus, they simply perished.

Hundreds of billions of people died in the span of thirty days.

Every day, news of a new catastrophe spread across the entirety of human civilization. Yet another prosperous and powerful nation fell to the frenzied beasts and monsters. So many horrifying tragedies and horrors emerged that the Martial World and the political sphere had begun to grow numb to them. Meanwhile, an information lockdown on the average citizen had come into place. If the average person found out that twenty-percent of human civilization was destroyed, they would erupt in panics, upheavals, and outbreaks, destabilizing human civilization. Communication technology was limited to the top-one percent of human civilization, and thus the average person couldn't just simply use a comms device to contact the rest of the world and figure out what was going on. And despite that, consumer sentiment plummeted to all-time lows as supply chain disruption destroyed and annihilated the supplier market. Shops, stores, and markets had closed down due inability to supply products that required goods, services, and resources from abroad to produce. The markets were rapidly emptied as the ability to sell things plummeted and a wave of hyperinflation washed over the entirety of the tatters of the ravaged global economy.

Martial Artists became nothing short of gods to the average person. They had already possessed exalted statuses in society before as most of the private and legal establishment of humans had treated Martial Artists as a special and privileged class of society.

Now, however, they had come to earn the genuine and heartfelt gratitude of all people who would undoubtedly be dead without them. If before, people had been awed and admiring, even if envious and resentful, now they grew devoted in their gratitude.

Governments added extraordinarily powerful incentive structures to keep Martial Artists around. The worst outcome for most nations was if these Martial Artists decided to migrate to a more prosperous and powerful nation like the Kandrian Empire and abandon their weaker nations, resulting in their destruction.

Martial Artists came to possess absolute legal immunity, maximal priority of resources, and other goods and services and any and everything else that human civilization could offer.

The most stable nations were the Sage-level powerhouses that continued to dominantly crush the incoming beast tides. However, not even they could avoid much of these same societal and economic patterns.

The one and only nation that came out of national emergency with a functioning, even if significantly damaged, economy with well-functioning institutions and a prevailing public order was the Kandrian Empire and the nations on the island continents that surrounded the supercontinent of Panama.

The beast tide was unable to pass the Great Nam Ocean very well, thus these smaller island continents were largely safe from the destruction of the Beast Incursion in the short-run.

Regardless, the first month of the Beast Incursion did incalculable and destructive harm to all of human civilization, the likes of which nobody could even begin to fathom.

The arrival of the Human Summit was the first ray of hope in an era of darkness.

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